The New CEO Workbook

Navigate your CEO transition with confidence

Being a new CEO is complex, confusing, and often exhausting. It's the most challenging and loneliest role in business. The scope, gravity, responsibility, accountability, and exposure are unparalleled. After the pressure and excitement of the succession or appointment process, the real work begins.

Following the success of The New CEO: Lessons from CEOs on How to Start Well and Perform Quickly (Minus the Common Mistakes), we’ve created The New CEO Workbook, your personal thinking partner as you prepare for your transition into the CEO role.

This workbook will provide you with a structured framework for reflection in your first days, weeks, and months in the role. Each chapter features carefully crafted questions that prompt you to pause, reflect, and make deliberate choices about your transition journey.

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How to use The New CEO Workbook

Think of this workbook as your private space for honest reflection. Unlike board presentations or leadership team discussions, these chapters are where you can wrestle with uncertainties, acknowledge concerns, and think through complex challenges before they become pressing issues. What matters is that you make time for this thinking—because in the whirlwind of your transition, structured reflection will be essential to your long-term success.

Whether you're stepping into the CEO role for the first time or you’re a veteran CEO transitioning to lead a new organization, this workbook provides invaluable, distilled wisdom from hundreds of successful CEOs who have navigated this exact path before you.

Who should use this workbook?

The New CEO Workbook has been created for first-time CEOs and veteran CEOs across industries and ownership structures, including PE and family-owned offices. The workbook is also valuable for C-suite executives, aspiring CEOs, and anyone who regularly works with CEOs such as:

• Board members
• CHROs
• Next-generation leaders
• In-house counsel
• Consultants and advisors
• Founders/entrepreneurs

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About the Author

Ty Wiggins is a leadership expert who is passionate about setting up new CEOs for success. As the lead of Russell Reynolds Associates' CEO & Transitions Practice globally, he helps world-leading CEOs successfully transition into their roles, to unlock business (and personal) success—faster.

Ty is one of only a handful of people globally with a Ph.D. in leadership transitions. He harnesses his deep academic and consulting background to provide CEOs, boards, and senior leadership across industries with the advice, support, and insight needed to start well and perform quickly.

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Based on original research and candid conversations with CEOs from Verizon, PepsiCo, Campbell's, UPS, Whirlpool, and more, The New CEO: Lessons from CEOs on How to Start Well and Perform Quickly (Minus the Common Mistakes) examines how world-leading CEOs approach their first year in the role.

Discover their successes, their missteps, and the important lessons they learned along the way.

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The New CEO Workbook:
A practical guide for CEOs to start well and perform quickly

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